Releasing exclusively via Substack on February 7, 2025


Director: Philip Gelatt
Featuring: Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron, and Mariana Enriquez
Producer: Will Battersby
Director of Photographer: Sean Kirby
Composer: Peter Scartabello
Editor: April Merl
Sound Designer: Ben Cheah
FIRST WORD ON HORROR is a fifteen-part documentary series that profiles five of the finest horror writers working today.
Across multiple episodes, each author discusses their life, their inspirations, their philosophies, and their writing techniques while reading one of their short stories. As fact and fiction blend, secrets are revealed and the delicate alchemy that turns human experience into creative expression begins to emerge.
Award winning author Laird Barron talks about his unsettling childhood in Alaska.(ETCH)